27/08/2026
🍞 WHAT’S REALLY IN YOUR BREAD?
Last night I was watching Inside the Factory with Paddy McGuinness, where they were inside the Warburtons bakery making their Toastie loaf.
It was fascinating seeing bread produced on that scale — but it also got me looking at the ingredients list.
Alongside flour, water, yeast and salt, the loaf contains vegetable oils, soya flour, calcium propionate as a preservative, emulsifiers E472e and E481, and ascorbic acid as a flour treatment agent.
Now compare that with a basic loaf I can make at home with my Thermomix TM7:
🌾 Strong bread flour
💧 Water
🌱 Yeast
🧂 Salt
That’s it.
I’m not suggesting there’s anything inherently “bad” about every ingredient used in commercially produced bread — they’re there for reasons such as softness, consistency and shelf life.
But for me, one of the things I love most about making food from scratch is simply knowing exactly what has gone into it.
The Thermomix mixes and kneads the dough for me, so homemade bread really doesn’t have to mean lots of hard work or mess. And there is NOTHING quite like the smell of a freshly baked loaf in the kitchen. 😍
If you’ve ever wondered whether a Thermomix would actually change the way you cook, come and have a demo with me. No pressure, just some cooking, tasting and a chance to see what it can do.
Drop me a message. 💚
And tell me below — do you ever look at the ingredients on the bread you buy?
